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The attorney for an Avondale teen who police said raped a homeless woman after forcing her into a Downtown parking garage says surveillance video tells “a much different story.”

Tytus Bailey, a recent graduate of Dater High School, faces charges including rape and kidnapping in the September 2019 incident. He is being held at the Hamilton County jail on a $100,000 bond.

According to court documents, around midnight on Sept. 23, Bailey approached the woman and two men who were with her and punched the men in the face – knocking them unconscious. The woman and the two men were homeless, documents say.

A third homeless man approached, according to the documents, and Bailey allegedly struck him in the face, also knocking him unconscious.

It is alleged that Bailey then took unknown property from the woman, forced her into a parking garage near Great American Tower, and sexually assaulted her.

But in a recently filed motion, Bailey’s attorney, James Bogen, said surveillance videos from the parking garage “tell a much different story from the allegation that Mr. Bailey forced (the woman) into the parking garage.”

Bailey and the woman are seen in one video walking together on the sidewalk, across the street from the garage, according to Bogen. They then cross the street together.

“While in the middle of the street, the video shows them begin to hold hands,” Bogen says in the motion. “The videos from all angles show them casually walking together into the parking garage, holding hands.”

One video shows Bailey and the woman on the garage’s lower level and “a number of people pass by,” Bogen wrote. One person, according to Bogen, “can be seen looking in their direction, filming or snapping a picture, then moving on.”

Two other people can be seen walking by the same spot and not looking inside the garage.

Bogen says in the motion that the videos contradict the woman’s allegation that Bailey forced her into the garage.

“It obviously calls all of her accusations into question,” Bogen says.

Bogen also questions whether Bailey, who was 18 at the time, could have so easily knocked unconscious the three homeless men.

Bailey is “not exceptionally built, and he certainly doesn’t have any special fighting skills," Bogen says.

“This particular set of allegations sounds like something out of a movie.”

A hearing in Bailey’s case is set for April 21 before Hamilton County Common Pleas Judge Robert Ruehlman.